Treating cellulitis with sesame oil

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In my home grown attempt at attacking my umbilical cellulitis infection, I had read somewhere that sesame seed oil is an anti bacterial agent. Sesame seed oil is a natural oil that is extracted from sesame seeds; it is used in Indian cooking extensively. The Indians also believe that sesame oil called “thil kaa thel” in Hindi and “nallennai” in Tamil has extensive medicinal properties and believe that it has anti-bacterial properties. And I figured that this would be a good agent to latch on to in my fight against cellulitis.

Sesame oil is extracted from sesame seeds by two basic processes. One method is by hot pressing and the other method is by cold pressing. Cold pressed sesame oil is the better form, because none of the nutrients and micro-constituents get destroyed in the extraction process. And so, I went to a local Indian grocery store and purchased a bottle of Idhayam brand sesame oil.

In the morning, I would take a clean tissue and soak it with sesame oil and gently apply it into my belly button and then discard the tissue by flushing it down the toilet. This was a topical application.

Additionally, once I finished my morning pranayama, I would ingest one glass of cold water and then I performed oil pulling using sesame oil – again I used Idhayam brand because I felt it was of good quality. There are a variety of sources on the internet where you can learn about oil pulling and how it extracts toxins from the body primarily through the gums in the mouth. I performed this five out of seven days.

Thus, pranayama, sesame oil topical application as well as oil pulling were performed wednesdays through sundays with mondays and tuesdays being clear of any of these practices.

There were some special hygiene practices I followed which will be explained in the next article entitled Hygiene practices for cellulitis.